linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/14] rcu: Parameterize rcu_check_gp_start

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Date:   Sun, 11 Nov 2018 11:28:54 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/14] rcu: Parameterize rcu_check_gp_start_stall()

In order to debug forward-progress stalls, it is necessary to check
for excessively delayed grace-period starts.  This is currently done
for RCU CPU stall warnings by rcu_check_gp_start_stall(), which checks
to see if the start of a requested grace period has been delayed by an
RCU CPU stall warning period.  Because rcutorture will need to check
for the time consumed by an RCU forward-progress delay, this commit
promotes gpssdelay from a local variable to a formal parameter.  It is
not necessary to export rcu_check_gp_start_stall() because rcutorture
will access it via a wrapper function.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 4933f5d9d992..36e30150e1e9 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -2600,10 +2600,10 @@ static void force_quiescent_state(void)
  * This function checks for grace-period requests that fail to motivate
  * RCU to come out of its idle mode.
  */
-static void
-rcu_check_gp_start_stall(struct rcu_node *rnp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
+void
+rcu_check_gp_start_stall(struct rcu_node *rnp, struct rcu_data *rdp,
+			 const unsigned long gpssdelay)
 {
-	const unsigned long gpssdelay = rcu_jiffies_till_stall_check();
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned long j;
 	struct rcu_node *rnp_root = rcu_get_root();
@@ -2690,7 +2690,7 @@ static __latent_entropy void rcu_process_callbacks(struct softirq_action *unused
 		local_irq_restore(flags);
 	}
 
-	rcu_check_gp_start_stall(rnp, rdp);
+	rcu_check_gp_start_stall(rnp, rdp, rcu_jiffies_till_stall_check());
 
 	/* If there are callbacks ready, invoke them. */
 	if (rcu_segcblist_ready_cbs(&rdp->cblist))
-- 
2.17.1